Syndicate: Digitale ' 99 - Autonomy, Cologne/D, 30.9.-2.10. 99

[Andreas Broeckmann <abroeck@v2.nl>]

http://www.digitale.khm.de/digitale_99/digitale5.html

Digitale '99 - Autonomy
Cinemathek Cologne
30.9.-2.10. 99


The most recent success of the Danish initiative DOGMA only confirms the
choice of the subject for this year's Digitale: Digitale `99 will try to
illustrate the vast possibilities and conditions connected with new digital
recording device.
Digital video cameras allow film shooting without any considerable
financing problems.However, new limits may reveal rapidly: an extended
shooting time, an enormous difference between shooting/editing material,
the transfer costs of DV films are still immense, and then there is still
the question of how to aesthetically define professional work and pure
amateur work if not by establishing a new dogma?

            In the daytime discussions - the digital brunches -
directors-cameramen,
            producers and network professionals report on their experiences
offered
            by the new technological possiblities.
            In cooperation with Next Wave Films (Los Angeles).

            The afternoon workshops entitled "Mobility", "Desert Light" and
"Ping/Pong"
            examine the origins of this new mobility, introduce pioneers of
the handheld
            cameras and discuss local differences.

            The screenings in the evenings include works on the"expanded"
cinema and
            address a broader public and have the focus on the dividing
lines between
            "traditional" and "expanded" cinema The excerpts shown are
specifically
            developed by the guests of the workshops for Digitale `99.

            The workshop"Mobility" refers to the film avantgarde. It starts
with the
            early programmatics of Edgar Reitz ("When the film leaves the
Cinema") and
            Hellmuth Costard's visual "pencil" and tries to process the
results of the
            preceeding analogue revolution for the digital revolution.
            In cooperation with the Kölner Filmhaus, Digitale `99 offers
retrospectives
            to introduce the public to its subjects before the main event in
            September/October.

            "Wüstenlicht": Referring to last years' Digital Dialects and
the workshop
            with guests from Israel, Digitale `99 invites filmmakers coming
from
            instable regions to show how digital techniques can be used to
establish
            local film cultures. In this matter, Digitale `99 tries to
cooperate with
            existing initiatives in Northrhine-Westphalia.

            "Ping/Pong" will present actual economic forms and developments
in the
            music business."Pingpong" is a term used by designers,
filmmakers and sound artists to
            describe the constant change inbetween and from analogue to
digital media and to determine
            an economic space between art and commercial industry. In
cooperation with Jürgen Moritz
            (Vienna/Cologne).


            One evening of Digitale '99 will be dedicated to present the
first edition
            of yec (young european cinema). yec is an initiative to promote
the young
            European cinema and the pilot project is supported by Digitale
'99. Each
            director receives a small production budget, the films are shot
on digital
            cameras by SONY. The films are edited as a whole program.
            yec aims at becoming a new intitiative for the promotion of young
            filmmakers in the European film scene.

            Considering a possible cooperation and networking of Digitale
with other European partners
            (Film Festival Rotterdam, Koninck/Illuminations, The Lux, London),
            Digitale `99 develops an online festival and a data base that
can be
            extended together with European partners: Blackhole TV is
Digitale's online film festival where
            filmmakers have the opportunity to present their works in the
www. On an experimental basis,

            Blackhole TV analyses the relationships between filmmakers,
spectators and distributors.
            Blackhole TV starts mid-June. At first, 15 works will be
presented online but in the months
            preceeding the Digitale, more works will be shown. (concept:
Timothée Ingen-Housz)

            IACE@Digitale99 (Instant Archaeology Concept Editing) will
connect computer data bases
            with digital editing. The video material recorded during
Digitale '98 is saved in a way that allows
            an individual editing. (concept: Michael Mikina and Francis
Wittenberger).



Digitale '99 is organised by the Academy of Media Arts Cologne, Nils
Roeller and Siegfried Zielinksi for the "Staatskanzlei" of
Northrhine-Westfalia and supported by SONY within its program for the arts.

            concept: Nils Röller/Prof. Dr.Siegfried Zielinski

            Academy of Media Arts Cologne
            Peter-Welter-Platz 2 50670 Cologne
            50676 Cologne
            Fax: (+49)-(0)221- 201 89 230

            Tel: (+49)-(0)221- 201 89-0

            public relation:
            Leonardo GmbH
            emai:leonardo@netcologne.de
            email: digitale@khm.de
            www.digitale.khm.de


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